Book Notes

Invisible Martyrs: Inside the Secret World of Female Islamic Radicals By Farhana Qazi. (Oakland, CA: Berrett – Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2018) 188 pp. Reviewed by David Firester, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, The Graduate Center (City University of New York) Farhana Qazi investigates females who commit violent acts in the name of what she steadfast... read more

Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa By Chandra Sriram (Editor) (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017) 321 pp. Reviewed by: Elham Kazemi, PhD student of Political Science, University of California, Irvine The uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” started in Tunisia in December 2010 and soon engulfed the whole Middle East [&helli... read more

Political Islam in Tunisia the History of Ennahda by Anne Wolf (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017) 269 pp. Reviewed by Salih Yasun, PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Anne Wolf’s “Political Islam in Tunisia” discusses the historical evolution of political Islam in Tunisia through an intersecting paradigm ... read more

Why Europe Intervenes in Africa: Security, Prestige and the Legacy of Colonialism By Catherine Gegout (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 400pp. Reviewed by: Paul Chiudza Banda, Ph.D. Candidate in History, West Virginia University Catherine Gegout highlights the various forms of European intervention in African affairs since the end of the Cold Wa... read more

The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know by James L. Gelvin (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018) 191 pp. Reviewed by Berkay Gülen, PhD Candidate in International Studies, University of Washington James L. Gelvin’s The New Middle East, a part of ‘What Everyone Needs to Know’ series of the Oxford University Press, [&hellip... read more

The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict By Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez (Oxford University Press, 2017.) 506 pp. Reviewed by Prof. David A. Meier, Dickinson State University Ginor and Remez drew positive acclaim for their book Foxbats Over Dimona... read more

Turkey’s July 15th Coup: What Happened and Why Edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and Bayram Balcı (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2018), 344 pp. Reviewed by Prof. Paul Kubicek, Department of Political Science, Oakland University The attempted coup of July 15, 2016 constitutes a watershed in modern Turkey. Its failure, in part [&... read more

Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism by Sara Rich Dorman (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016,) pp. 347. Reviewed by Dr. Wyndham Whynot, Department of History and Political Science, Livingstone College Recently Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, who ruled that country for the last several decades, was remove... read more

Iran in World History by Richard Foltz (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016), 151 pp. Reviewed by: Dr. Wyndham Whynot, Department of History and Political Science, Livingstone College Historically, particular countries often played a significant role within their geographical regions; in the Middle East, the 20th-century several countries such ... read more